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by sbrother 12y ago
This looks really cool and I'm excited to play around with it. I had been using Euterpea for a while last year ( http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/ ), but as far as I can tell that project has gone cold, and it&#x
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by sbrother 13y ago
This is bike related, not tech related, but I couldn't see "Full-suspension 29'er from a well-known manufacturer for about $2,900" without wondering why the GT Sensor 9r Expert didn't make your list. I have the 2013
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by sbrother 13y ago
Not really. Wolfram Alpha is a pretty recent addition to the Wolfram product lineup, and Mathematica/"Wolfram Language" was very popular in academia before that. There wasn't even a direct way to access Alpha from Mathem
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by sbrother 13y ago
It's an amazing language - basically lisp with the biggest standard library you've ever imagined, and nice (but slow) pattern matching. I used to use it all the time when I was doing one-off projects at school and for clients. But
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by sbrother 13y ago
Kivy excels at a lot of things, but I'd say that its real value shows when you want to quickly make a cross-platform mobile app that also happens to run on desktop OSes. The widgets and markup language (KV) are designed to be used in a
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by sbrother 13y ago
I'm not concerned, actually I find that sort of retargeting preferable to less relevant ads. I was just intrigued because a 1500W power supply is a pretty niche gadget that I was surprised to see here.
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by sbrother 13y ago
Halfway down the first page I see the "EVGA SUPERNOVA NEX1500 CLASSIFIED POWER SUPPLY". I find it hard to believe this is that relevant to the target audience of this site, and it's too much of a coincidence that I just bough
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by sbrother 13y ago
Second this, I'm surprised you don't read more about it here. We use it in production to recommend image searchterms based on unstructured text, and it performs better with a few lines of python code than anything our team could w
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by sbrother 13y ago
And Thom Yorke. Which doesn't stop them from telling me "You haven't listened to much Thom Yorke recently, want to now?".
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by sbrother 13y ago
Where do you work? I live in LA and bike to work every day, but I live 3 miles away from work in Santa Monica. I would never consider biking downtown, at least not yet.
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by sbrother 13y ago
I really wish the licensing for Mathematica weren't as strict; it's a fantastic language that would be everywhere if it had a free "community version" or something. I used it very extensively in college and then took adv
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by sbrother 13y ago
I have a two year old Gazelle Professional from System76. Everything worked out of the box, and in the one case I had an issue (related to reinstalling the OS from a thumb drive), the System76 tech support was absolutely fantastic. Got a di
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by sbrother 13y ago
You never need the arrow keys or backspace with emacs either: C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p, and C-d :)
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by sbrother 13y ago
I do the same, and setting terminal transparency is usually the first change I make to a new box after importing my .emacs. With your terminal split at least 4 ways stuffing it over on one side of the screen is a non-starter. And even with
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by sbrother 14y ago
I'm surprised this article didn't mention scrapy. I had to do a lot of web scraping for a healthcare-related project last month and found scrapy incredibly fast and easy to use.
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by sbrother 14y ago
This is really exciting. I do about 50% of my commercial development work in VB .NET (the other 50% in Python), and I hate hate HATE working in VB. Convincing the suits to go with Python would be near impossible -- too many processes rely o
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by sbrother 14y ago
I'd argue that Unity looks much, much better on high DPI. I run it on an old crappy 1024x768 and a newer 1920x1080 of around the same size, and the icons/launcher actually look sane at almost double the DPI of the older screen. Unity makes
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by sbrother 14y ago
I'd like to add scipy.spatial.cKDTree for really fast kd-trees. Just used it for a geospatial data analysis application (find the closest N facilities to a given point) and it blew the numpy and standard python alternatives out of the water
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by sbrother 14y ago
I'm interested in learning F# but can't get past the "Your system does not support the execution of F# code in the browser." Any other pretty painless way to try it? I've been messing with Haskell and like it a lot but it would be nice to h
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by sbrother 14y ago
One word: coworking! As a freelance developer I struggled with this for a while (getting depressed working at home, and getting tired of reduced productivity at cafes) until I joined a good coworking space. I realized that while working alo
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by sbrother 14y ago
Exactly. But that's one of the best parts of software development in my opinion - you can make 3x the median income while living wherever you like and working 20 hours a week (i.e. having time for side projects, or kids)
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by sbrother 15y ago
Rejected. But the application process was worth it in itself - it forced us to make concrete goals and discuss our plan going further in a deeper way than we would have otherwise.